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Being Gay is no longer a "disease" to be caught or a result of upbringing etc.
The fact that someone has the courage to openly declare their sexuality to the world should be applauded rather than be met with comments like "who cares" or "keep it to yourself". In fact I am glad people think to themselves: "who cares" because it shows a level of acceptance in that statement that being gay is becoming accepted rather than being reviled as it used to be.
I honestly don't care if you are gay, *******, straight, racist, homophobic, intolerant or bigoted. You have every right to be who you are and express your opinion.
What I object to is ANYONE who puts anyone else down or views others as "abnormal" because they are not the same as they are, or don't believe what they themselves believe.
Fullstop.
If you are different to me, then so what? I am a male, 44 year old straight man with a wife and three boys, who are 14, 18 and 20.
If any of my sons declared to me that they were homosexual, it wouldn't make me love them any less. It is their right as a human being to be, act and live any way that they like. If they wanted to raise kids in such a relationship, then I would encourage that as I believe that children can be loved as much by two men or two women just as much as a man and a woman in a parental role. If anyone said otherwise, then I would fight for their rights with everything I had.
If you don't agree with me, then I don't care. You have every right to have an opposing opinion.
I hope that today and in the future, that if I see ANYONE in the street being discriminated or abused by anyone else because they are different, whether it is because they are gay, *******, a different colour, male, female, of a different race, religion, mentally challenged or even if they are old, or infirm, then I would come to their defence and stand up for their rights to exist as a human being and exist as a PERSON who has their own beliefs, rights and expectations to be treated with respect by others, no questions asked.
Until EVERYONE thinks this way, then we will have conflict online, in the world and on the streets, simply because not everyone can understand that it is everyone's basic human right to be different than the person sitting next to you.
The bottom line is this: I am an individual, who has every right to believe what I want to believe. If my opinion or belief differs from you, then I WILL NOT impose this onto you, out of respect for you. Just like I would expect YOU not to impose your beliefs onto me.
Everyone has the right to believe what they want to believe, their actions, based on those beliefs, is how they are judged by others.
Chris
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